I commented already on leaders 'inappropriate, abusive, "unfatherly" behavior in my August 28 post about. ❋ Futuristguy (2008)
“Well, son,” Professor Robbins began in a very unfatherly voice, “I must say, I've never seen a work quite like this one.” ❋ Nathaniel Tower (2011)
What hit me was that everything I was feeling about her by then was about as goddamn unfatherly as you can get. ❋ Maritta Wolff (2009)
In a rather weird unfatherly move, Vega's dad actually got worried about his daughter and hooked her up with a cowherder named Altair, another workaholic. ❋ Unknown (2005)
I'll break his neck, 'he said, with real and unfatherly viciousness. ❋ Francis, Dick (1968)
Composed of a circle of tents numbering about fifty, and exhibiting numbers of fine horses picketed near the tent-doors, it is as fine a specimen as we shall see of the patriarchal life inherited from the unfatherly father of Ishmael. ❋ Various (N/A)
She did not deny the act, but pleaded justification, alleging that her husband was guilty of unfatherly conduct toward his daughter. ❋ Edward S. Curtis (1910)
The King in England, his councilors, and Parliament, played an unfatherly role, while in Virginia economic hardships pressed ever harder and the administration became more and more oppressive. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
The Duchess now understood the unfatherly disregard Old Jimmie had shown for the ordinary welfare of Maggie. ❋ Leroy Scott (1902)
My father had written of his "doubts and misgivings," and I felt confident that it was nothing in the world but the tenacious hold of these doubts and misgivings upon his mind which had in the first instance made him so unfatherly in his treatment of me, and had now reduced him almost to a condition of insanity. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
Carey, still with that unfatherly air of discontent. ❋ Ada Cambridge (1885)
Struck, not by the unfatherly, but by the ungentlemanly nature of his response, Stanwood promptly gathered himself together, to meet the situation. ❋ Anna Fuller (1884)
She brooded with delight, in the midst of her wrath, on every word of disgust that had fallen from his unfatherly lips. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
Criminal as she knew herself, Jane Tuke did not shrink from again facing sir Wilton, with the nephew by her side whom one and twenty years before she had carried in her arms to meet his unfatherly gaze! ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
Mr. Pickwick had great influence over him, and he had been much struck with Mary's appearance; having, in fact, bestowed several very unfatherly winks upon her, already. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
Johannes Krisch makes the most of his scant screen time as the charismatic, unfatherly patriarch. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Not to beget a child, could be no injury to it; but when it is begot, and born, to deny it food and education, this is an inhuman, an unfatherly temper. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)
